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Pluralism is used, often in different ways, across a wide range of topics to denote a diversity of views, and stands in opposition to one single approach or method of interpretation:
- Benefice, in the sense of holding multiple ecclesiastical offices
- Cosmic pluralism, the belief in numerous other worlds beyond the Earth, which may possess the conditions suitable for life
- Cultural pluralism, when small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities (see Multiculturalism)
- Economic pluralism, the diversity of economic methods including capitalism, cooperatives and laissez faire
- Legal pluralism, acknowledges the existence of differing legal systems in the world
- Methodological pluralism, the view that some phenomena observed in science and social science require multiple methods to account for their nature
- Pluralism (philosophy), entirely unrelated positions in monism of metaphysics and epistemology
- Pluralism (political philosophy), the acknowledgment of a diversity of political systems
- Pluralism (political theory), holds that political power in society does not lie with the electorate but is distributed among a wide number of groups
- Pluralist school, a Greek school of pre-Socratic philosophers
- Religious pluralism, a term used to describe the acceptance of all religious paths as equally valid, promoting coexistence
- Scientific pluralism, the view that some phenomena observed in science require multiple explanations to account for their nature, and hence the denial that there is one unified scientific method
- Value pluralism, the idea that there are several values which may be equally correct and fundamental, and yet in conflict with each other
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